GLINT(4)GLINT(4)NAMEglint - GLINT/Permedia video driver
SYNOPSIS
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "glint"
...
EndSection
DESCRIPTIONglint is an XFree86 driver for 3Dlabs & Texas Instruments
GLINT/Permedia based video cards. The driver is rather
fully accelerated, and provides support for the following
framebuffer depths: 8, 15 (may give bad results with FBDev
support), 16, 24 (32 bpp recommended, 24 bpp has prob-
lems), 30, and an 8+24 overlay mode.
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The glint driver supports 3Dlabs (GLINT MX, GLINT 500TX,
GLINT GAMMA, Permedia, Permedia 2, Permedia 2v, Permedia
3) and Texas Instruments (Permedia, Permedia 2) chips.
CONFIGURATION DETAILS
Please refer to XF86Config(5) for general configuration
details. This section only covers configuration details
specific to this driver.
The driver auto-detects the chipset type, but the follow-
ing ChipSet names may optionally be specified in the con-
fig file "Device" section, and will override the auto-
detection:
"ti_pm2", "ti_pm", "pm3", "pm2v", "pm2", "pm",
"500tx", "mx", "gamma".
The driver will try to auto-detect the amount of video
memory present for all chips. If it's not detected cor-
rectly, the actual amount of video memory should be speci-
fied with a VideoRam entry in the config file "Device"
section.
Additionally, you may need to specify the bus ID of your
card with a BusID entry in the config file "Device" sec-
tion, especially with FBDev support.
The following driver Options are supported:
Option "HWCursor" "boolean"
Enable or disable the HW cursor. Default: on.
Option "SWCursor" "boolean"
Enable or disable the SW cursor. Default: off.
This option disables the HWCursor option and vice
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Option "NoAccel" "boolean"
Disable or enable acceleration. Default: accelera-
tion is enabled.
Option "Overlay"
Enable 8+24 overlay mode. Only appropriate for
depth 24, 32 bpp. (Note: This hasn't been tested
with FBDev support and probably won't work.) Rec-
ognized values are: "8,24", "24,8". Default: off.
Option "PciRetry" "boolean"
Enable or disable PCI retries. (Note: This doesn't
work with Permedia2 based cards for Amigas.)
Default: off.
Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer
layer. See shadowfb(4) for further information.
(Note: This disables hardware acceleration.)
Default: off.
Option "UseFBDev" "boolean"
Enable or disable use of an OS-specific fb inter-
face (which is not supported on all OSs). See
fbdevhw(4) for further information. Default: off.
Option "BlockWrite" "boolean"
Enable or disable block writes for the various Per-
media 2 chips. This improves acceleration in gen-
eral, but disables it for some special cases.
Default: off.
Option "FireGL3000" "boolean"
If you have a card of the same name, turn this on.
Default: off.
Option "SetMClk" "freq"
The driver will try to auto-detect the memory clock
for all chips. If it's not detected correctly, the
actual value (in MHz) should be specified with this
option.
SEE ALSOXFree86(1), XF86Config(5), xf86config(1), Xserver(1), X(7)AUTHORS
Authors include: Alan Hourihane, Dirk Hohndel, Stefan
Dirsch, Michel Danzer, Sven Luther
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